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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
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Novelist
Poet
Hendersonville
North Carolina
Intimacy
Places
Characters
Events
Fiction
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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
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In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
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Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
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I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
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I considered going to film school I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
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Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
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